Technical Debt: Where Are the Shareholders' Interests?
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Technical debt is more than a metaphor: applying financeand accounting practices typical of other business obligations to technical debt can, in addition to meeting ethical and legal governance requirements, generate real, sustainedfinancial benefits.
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Published: 01 November 2012
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